[Graeme Smith]

Did have some nitromors and tried it - nothing doing

[Terry Guilford]

Graeme,

Did you try covering it with plastic as was suggested? It stops it drying out therefore increasing the dwell time. Still doubt it will work just following up on the earlier suggestion.

Terry

[Buckland]

Terry

Just out of interest - when you say Moher stone do you mean you quarry the same stone that makes up the Cliffs of Moher!

The Tourist police will be after you!

Beautiful place the west coast of Ireland - cant wait to get back there!

regards

dave

[Terry Guilford]

Dave,

Same area but different stone I think, its very like its more famous brother Liscannor stone. The stuff is still quarried but in any case mine was hundreds of years old you can't get them that size now.  I bought it while it was still on the roof of an open barn, now each slab is around 5' x 4' and 1" to 2" thick, you can't posiibly lift one. There were 20 or 30 of these slabs ON A ROOF! The were supported by one oak beam (tree actually) running down the length of the building and not much else as far as I can remember. I had them on the floor for about 15 years but my wife hated the fact they were difficult to clean as they are very riven ( more so than Liscannor which is how you tell the difference).

Give me a shout if you ever make it back again, Pierre from Art of Clean was here a few weeks ago and drove that stunning Clare coast road, a drivers dream on a good day (rare in the west of Ireland)

Terry

[Buckland]

Sorry did not see your reply. Last time on west coast we spent 10 days on Achill Island about five years ago in a fantastic rented house after we found an artists sketchbook with paintings of Achill from the turn of the 19th/20 century - even saw some of the same street views as in the sketches - very friendly people delighted to see the book and show us around - even tho it turns out it was painted (probably) by someone from the church of ireland missionary church there - i.e. prots trying to convert the locals! what are we like, how did they get away with that!?

cheers for the shout may get back there sometime in the not too far distant as no 1 son's partner is a lovely lass from Derry with family from Letterkenny!

dave

[Terry Guilford]

A good friend lives on Achille Island, it's a beautiful spot and if Malcolm is anything to go by they are sound people.

The relationship between the Church of Ireland and the Catholics is not like it is in the North, in many ways the prods are well respected... it's complicated not really one for this forum I suppose. Anyway more than happy to meet anyone who makes it over here.

Terry